AMD Athlon X4 860K vs Intel Xeon L5520

Athlon X4 860K vs Xeon L5520 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 860K performs better than the Xeon L5520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon L5520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon L5520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 860K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 860K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. The Xeon L5520 outputs less heat than Athlon X4 860K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 860K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon L5520

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Athlon X4 860K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.